Hello, everyone. Greetings from Malaysia. Home! Took me all of 15 minutes to regain my tropical gait, which wasn’t very hard to do when everything feels so moist all the time. Anyway, a relatively quick one this week. As always, you can reach me at nicholas.quah@nymag.com or find me on Twitter.
At the outset of a summer not long ago, Mitra Kaboli traveled to Provincetown with two aims in mind. The first is to fulfill her assignment of documenting the lives of several individuals across a season in the Massachusetts seaside haven for the queer community. Kaboli would construct a group portrait of sorts; among those she shadows were: a performer identified as the summer’s “It Girl”; three beneficiaries from a program designed to help relocate young people from communities that aren’t particularly welcoming of their queer identities; a newcomer to the town looking for some…